Trump unveils plan to make IVF cheaper: ‘Many more beautiful American children’

President Trump unveiled new steps Thursday that he said would dramatically reduce the cost of fertility treatments and in vitro fertilization (IVF) — saying it would mean “many more beautiful American children.”

Trump, who vowed as a candidate last year to make IVF free through either an insurance mandate or government subsidy, announced two more modest initial steps to encourage employers to offer new supplemental fertility coverage while lowering the cost of the drugs involved.

“Effective immediately, for the first time ever, we will make it legal for companies to offer supplemental insurance plans specifically for fertility — that’s never been done before,” Trump said in the Oval Office...